In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, she decides to disappear, telling no one where she has gone. What begins as an attempt to punish her father for his absence gradually becomes a testing-ground of his love for her, a coming-to-terms with the death of her mother, and finally the mise-en-scene for a courageous leap from false empowerment to true empowerment.
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Closing date: 07/09/2018
ISBN: 9781472150646
Publication date: 07/07/2016
Publisher: Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9781472150646 |
| Publication date: | 7th July 2016 |
| Author: | Rupert Thomson |
| Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: | eBook Favourites, Literary Fiction, |
| Categories: | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), |
Born on the south coast of England in 1955, Rupert Thomson was educated at Christ's Hospital School. At the age of seventeen he won a scholarship to Cambridge University where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. In his twenties, he spent four years working as a copywriter in London, but in 1982 he moved to Italy where he started work on a novel. Dreams of Leaving was published in 1987, and was hailed in the Times as 'extraordinarily elegant, evocative and funny', while the New Statesman wrote: 'When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it makes you wonder why other people ...
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